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Internet service for facilitating delivery of inquiries and answers, and accounting for associated financial transactions

  • US 20060047528A1
  • Filed: 08/31/2004
  • Published: 03/02/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An internet service for facilitating delivery of inquiries and answers, and accounting for financial transactions associated therewith, said internet service comprising:

  • means for a user of said service to specify at least one geographic region of interest to said user, in said service;

    means for said user to broadcast at least one inquiry to a subscriber population, said subscriber population being associated with said at least one geographic region of interest to said user;

    means for said subscriber population to receive said at least one inquiry from said user of said service so that an evaluation may be made by said subscriber population of whether to answer said at least one inquiry;

    means for said subscriber population desiring to answer said at least one inquiry to advise said user of a value associated with their answers to be given to said user upon acceptance of said value by said user;

    means for said user to view an answer selected by said user upon acceptance of said value by said user; and

    means for accounting for said value as (i) a debit against an account of said user in said service and (ii) a credit to an account of each one of said subscriber population giving said answer selected by said user.

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